Improvement in tapes for hoop-skirts



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

CHARLES C. CARPENTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAPES FOR HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 141,112, ,dated July 22,1873; application filed May 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. CARPEN- TER, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Skirt Tapes,

of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to tapes used for conmeeting the wires of hoop-skirts; and the invention therein consists of a new article of manufacture, in which each tape is made with an open body or-net-work and solid or closed strengthening and sustaining bars for the wires, forming a gauze tape, the said tapes being separate, or in sheets or widths of said open and solid work, and afterward separated into tapes. The object of my invention is to obtain tapes for skirts with closed strips for strength and to support the wires, while the body is of mesh or net work for greater lightness for the skirt, effecting a large saving in the cost of material, and greatly facilitates the manufacture of tapes, as they can be produced in widths from which a number of tapes can be out; whereas, by the present mode of making hoop-skirt tapes, each must be made separately, and requires a separate shuttle and bobbin. My new article of skirt-tapes is of vast importance to the trade, as they can be placed upon the market in sheets, requiring only to be separated for use, making a new article of manufacture of great. convenience and economy to the trade, while enhancing the value of the article by the neat and novel appearance which it gives to the skirt.

The accompanying drawings represent portions of single tapes for hoop-skirts, and a portion of such tapes when made in sheets or widths. Y The tapes are of the usual Width, the body being of open or mesh work A, with closed strips or bars B, to give the required strength and hold for the wires. These closed holding strips B may be either single or double, as may be desired. Either will answer the purpose designed, and they may run lengthwise or crosswise of the tape, as shown in the drawings. When arranged to run crosswise they may also form pockets for the wires 0, and the edges of the tapes may be stitched or bound. When made in single tapes the bars B will form selvage edges. When the tapes are out to form closed edges the latter may be stitched or left as woven. In separating the tapes from the sheet they are cut either in the middle and lengthwise of each closed strip, or crosswise, in either case mak-' ing the tapes from the same sheet. The sheet may contain a certain number of tapes, only requiring separation by cutting them lengthwise of each closed strip, in which case the latter forms the selvage or borderto the tape, or the same sheet may be cut at right angles into strips of the width of tapes. 'In either case the article is sold in the market as hoopskirt tape prepared for use. The wires C are secured to the tapes in the usual manner, the closed bars giving ample support to the wires and connecting the mesh-work. I

The economy of the tape so produced is apparent, and it is as durable for the purpose as the usual closed tape, while its lightness is not only an object of much importance to the wearer, but, in economy, of advantage to hoopskirt manufacturers.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a tape for hoop-skirts having an open body or meshwork, A, and solid or closed bars B, substantially as described and shown.

2. As a new article of manufacture, tapes for hoop skirts, constructed substantially as above described, when formed in sheets or widths for separation and use as tapes, as set forth.

Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses this 7th day of May, A. I). 1873.

CHAS. C. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

WM. BREWSTER, JAMES PHILLIPS. 

